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Tomorrow
I
will write something
so
achingly lovely
it will make you weep, scorch your socks off,
this piece
I will write tomorrow.
Big thank you to Karen, who writes the blog 21 Wits, for introducing me to a new form. It's called Piku, and this is how it works:
Piku is a form of poetry much like haiku, with a prescribed number of syllables per
line. But instead of 5-7-5 like Haiku, Piku uses pi
as its base. The number of syllables in each line corresponds to the
numbers of pi. So the first line
of Piku contains three syllables, one syllable for the second line and four
syllables for the third line, and so on, just like pi: 3.14159265358979323846…
In my piece the syllables in the lines are 3-1-4-1-5-9-2-6.
This is linked to IGRT for their Open Link Monday, and is also for April
Bravo, achingly lovely and spot on. Very well done! I've been thinking of adding more syllables in pi too! You've wowed me with your first go of it! Thanks for the mention too!
ReplyDeleteThank you and you're welcome Karen! I love the geeky aspect of writing a poem in the form of Pi! :o)
DeleteMe too! I'm going to try and use 3-1-4-1-5-9-2-6 for Alphabe-Thursday this week! I enjoy the option of playing with various syllables!
DeleteOkay, Scarlet. ;_) Tomorrow is another day, but today, and this poem, is good enough for me. Neat form, too.
ReplyDeleteHahaha - now where did I put those damn drapes! Thanks Joy.
DeleteVERY cool poem!!!! Intriguing form too.
ReplyDeleteYou made this look easy ... I know it isn't! Lots of smiles flying your way, Mary.
ReplyDeleteLoved it. It looks simple but there's a depth to it.
ReplyDeleteGreetings from London.
What a good idea for a syllable count. it works really well - I thought the flow came very naturally and I like your subject matter too.. that elusive perfect poem, waiting to be written tomorrow. I'm rather hoping for that myself right now.
ReplyDeletei hope you find that piece...
ReplyDeleteand you know...i think we put too much pressure on ourselves
at times trying to write to kill it
every time.
Hopefully the piece will come...love the form. I have never tried it.
ReplyDeleteOh but tomorrow never comes
ReplyDeleteYou've already done it.
ReplyDeletelike a fresh breath of air...love the simplicity of the form and the lines....
ReplyDeleteMary,
ReplyDeleteI never heard of the form, but you've filled it so well--and I sure know that sense of writing "tomorrow." Nice work.
Steve K.
I like it!
ReplyDeleteOoohh! I want to try this form! I have to remember it for Pi day next year. I wonder if you could double it and have a Tauku?
ReplyDeleteI also think the poem is delightful. Tomorrow is the perfect day to write a scorching poem.
The poet's mañana principle - I know it well! Very neatly & adroitly expressed, Mary.
ReplyDeleteYou also picked a spot on topic for it!
ReplyDeleteYou've made a slightly weird "form" into another great little poem, describing a feeling writers know all to well. "PI" has been calculated to billions of decimal places . . so there's an 'epic' poem waiting for someone once they've got over their writer's block.
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